Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics is a teaching and research entity of the College of Oceanography at Hohai University. The mission of the Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics is to enhance scientific understanding of history, structure and dynamics of earth beneath the oceans. Faculty members have maintained good cooperative relations withthe world-leading universities and institutions. Teaching and research at the department are currently focused on two primary areas of education and research.
Marine Tectonics & Geophysics aims to investigate structure and dynamic process of the earth beneath the oceans. Our current projects involve apply geology, rock mechanics, geophysics to study structure, stresses and rheology of the oceanic lithosphere, causes and mechanisms of oceanic earthquakes and the coupling between tectonics and fluid flows in the subduction zone. We have been involved in the International Ocean Discovery Program to study the processes and in situ conditions that underlie subduction zone SSEs at northern Hikurangi through coring of the frontal thrust, upper plate, and incoming sedimentary succession in the frontal thrust and upper plate above the slow slip source area.
Maine Geology aims to reveal evolution of oceanic lithosphere, mantle melting dynamics, oceanic-(continental) crust formation and paleoceanography, through investigating mid-ocean ridge, oceanic island and island arc rocks and deep-sea sediment cores. Our current projects involve apply petrology, petrography, mineralogy, element and isotope geochemistry to study (a) seafloor igneous rocks and polymetallic sulfide mineralization in the mid-oceanic ridges of Northwest and Southwest Indian ocean; (b) partial melting of stagnant slab and subducting sediment and its implications for the origin of the big mantle wedge beneath eastern China; (c) understanding the interactions between ocean processes and Earth’s climate over various timescales, ranging from millions of years to hundreds of years.
We welcome more talents to join us and work together to build a leading research and education center for Marine Geology and Geophysics.
